Emma Watson homesick at US University

Emma Watson has revealed she suffered severe homesickness when she first started studying at America's Brown University - so bad in fact that she couldn't phone home for three months.

The British Harry Potter starlet admitted her father originally wanted her to study at Cambridge, but she had dreamt of studying overseas, eventually heading for Rhode Island's prestigious Ivy League school. However, the distance from her parents was shockingly hard for the young actress: "I didn't call home for three months. I'd send text messages, but it was too hard to pick up the phone - I'd just burst into tears."

"Dad told me, 'Be yourself and you'll be fine'. My mom was more like, 'Make sure you wear a warm coat'. She sent me thermals and English chocolates."

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Emma went on to admit she had real problems mastering her locker code too: "I had serious issues with the code on my locker - remembering the numbers and how to turn it one way and then the other... I would be there for 15 minutes on the verge of tears because I couldn't open this bl**dy locker to get my mail."